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John Graham Brooks was an American sociologist, political reformer, and author. He provides details about a course he is to give in New York.

Transcription of the diary of Mary Farwell Ayer (Rousmaniere), Bryn Mawr College freshman and Baldwin School alumna. Ayer mostly discusses socializing with classmates. She writes about academics, specifically her Latin and English Literature classes and extracurricular activities, such as being chair of the freshman class, theater, and sports. She also writes about visiting Radcliffe College.

Walker was president of Harvard University from 1853 to 1860; Gibbons's son William died in 1855 while a sophomore there. The letter discusses the New York City draft riot and offers sympathy for the resultant destruction of Gibbons's home and the papers of her father Isaac T. Hopper. It also talks about some issues of human nature and moral philosophy. "Our activities do much, but our sufferings do more."

Congratulates Howland on recently receiving an honorary doctorate from the State University of New York. Passes on personal news and mentions the profusion of parenting literature she had been reading.

Cornelia Bowen was in the first graduating class of the Tuskegee Institute and became an educator who founded the Mount Meigs Colored Institute and the Mount Meigs Negro Boys' Reformatory. Written on Mt. Meigs Colored Institute stationery, which lists her as principal. She tells Anna Jackson that her experience as a teacher for 15 years has informed her opinion that it is best for students to alternate daily between school and industrial work. She says she sent Jackson's letter to Mr. Washington, likely Booker T. Washington, who was a trustee of the Mount Migs Colored Institute.

Photocopy of a newspaper article clipping titled "Attacks 'New Religion.'" Records Rev. Dr. Foster's response to Charles W. Eliot's July 22nd address to the Harvard Summer School of Theology. Charles W. Eliot was the longest serving president of Harvard University.